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In a Wall Street Journal survey of nearly 900 executives, 92% of respondents said soft skills were equally as or more important than technical skills. Nowhere is that truer than in global business. In a world characterized by constant change, soft skills are essential prerequisites for business success.read more

When put that way – peer learning v. professor-knows-all – it’s hard to imagine why anyone would want the latter approach. Indeed, we wrote in Peer Learning: Collaboration over Competition that a peer learning approach “builds the ‘real-world’ skillsets that employers are looking for. And, it’s more fun.” Yet it is not peer-to-peer learning alone that is the most effective way to learn.read more

TEM Lab - Fall, 2017 Romania, Taparo Written by Amy Titus Photos by Jeff Webb “Our ability to handle life's challenges is a measure of our strength of character.”- Les Brown The last five weeks have been a gratifying experience for us. Through the travels we have made and the people we have met, we... read more

TEM Lab - Fall, 2018 Nigeria, CEDVS Written by Team Ubuntu (Rachel An, Fungai Mandaza, Craig Pearson) Dear Professor Hunsaker and the TEM Lab Team, We cannot thank you and your team enough for all the work you have done to ensure that our TEM Lab projects become a success. Team Ubuntu (Rachal An,... read more

TEM Lab - Fall, 2017 Romania, Montana Written by Nate Flake Our Final Week Team Montana here from our final week in Romania and it has been one for the books. We were able to finish everything we wanted to do here both in and out of the office. The final presentation to Montana MG went great. We... read more

TEM Lab - Fall, 2017 Romania, Taparo Written by Jeff Webb October 4, 2017 During our time in Romania we were working for the company Taparo, the third largest furniture manufacturer for IKEA in Romania. Our project with Taparo involved evaluating an existing business case that Taparo has created... read more

TEM Lab - Fall, 2017 Romania, Taparo Written by Jeff Webb & Amy Titus During our time in Romania, we have had many discussions with locals about culture, history, and business. However, the topic that comes up more often than not is communism and its history in Romania. This is mostly because... read more

TEM Lab - Fall, 2017 Romania, Montana Written by Nate Flake We are hitting the home stretch as we come into week four at Montana MG here in Campulung, Romania. This past weekend we took to the road as we spent almost 15 hours between two days in the car traveling to see some of Romania’s famous... read more

TEM Lab - Fall, 2017 Nigeria, CEDVS Written by Team Ubuntu (Rachel An, Craig Pearson, Fungai Mandanza) Last week, we promised you a wedding. And a wedding you shall have… We were so lucky and privileged that in just our second weekend in Ado-Ekiti, we were invited to a wedding! We were starting to... read more